White Sox pitcher Lucas Giolito was dealing on Wednesday. Fortunately for the Twins, his teammate Gavin Sheets had a fall in right field.
Ryan Jeffers drilled an opposite-field line drive at Sheets in the fourth inning and the White Sox outfielder tripped himself up while trying to get a bead on it. Sheets fell, the baseball bounced and Jeffers wound up at third base.
Four batters later, the bases were loaded with one out for Michael A. Taylor, whose half-swing fielder’s choice grounder to first scored Jeffers for a 1-0 lead. The Twins augmented that lead with a two-run eighth inning and went on to beat their American League Central rival, 3-1, in front of an announced 17,658 at Target Field.
Taylor drove in a pair of runs, and Willi Castro — who replaced injured shortstop Kyle Farmer in the fourth — added an RBI double.
Twins right-hander Sonny Gray (2-0) pitched five scoreless innings, allowing three hits and two walks while walking two as the Twins took two of three games from Chicago and improved to 8-4 ahead of a four-game series against the Yankees starting Thursday in New York.
Jorge Alcala, Jorge Lopez and Griffin Jax pitched scoreless innings for the Twins, and Jhoan Duran pitched the ninth to earn his third save. He gave up a run on Lenyn Sosa’s two-out home run before retiring Seby Zavala on a grounder for the final out.
Chicago starter Giolito (0-1) scattered five hits — including Jeffers’ triple — and struck out seven in six innings, lowering his earned-run average from 9.00 to 6.00, but took the loss.
But it wasn’t a great day for the Twins, who lost Farmer when he was hit in the face by a Giolito fastball in the fourth inning and suffered what the Twins are calling a jaw injury.
Farmer was down for several minutes while being attended to by training staff. He was able to walk off the field, holding a towel to his face, but needed help. The Twins didn’t have any additional information on Farmer before the game ended.
In the third, Twins third baseman Jose Miranda was knocked down by a similar pitch — a high, inside 94 mph fastball — before drawing a walk.
In the seventh inning, designated hitter Byron Buxton, running from first on a grounder up the middle, collided with White Sox second baseman Lenyn Sosa. Buxton stayed down for about a minute before walking off the field without help.
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